M1+ for Android, iPhone and Laptop | Digitize Handwriting | Digital Bluetooth Pen for Real Time Sync, Handwriting to Text Transcription, Export to e-Mail and Document (Black)

While this pen comes with it's own software and promotes it's own paper ecosystem, I highly recommend using the moleskin system with this pen, it goes from a 3 star product to a 5 star just from switching environments. I will say this smart pen is VERY accurate with it's transcriptions even allowing you to convert what you write into a text format! The battery lasts a long time, the connection is stable, and it is very convenient to have all of my notes on my PC and phone to look over. This pen has been perfect for me as I love writing things by hand instead of typing everything out, and this lets me have the best of both worlds. I feel like the price of the pen/paper is well worth the freedom of having your notes with you digitally.

It's unfortunate that this pen comes so close but is still so far from functioning as intended. I purchased the pen so I could take hand written notes and have them backed up in a secure place. Well the actual handwriting to digitizing text works quite well. I am pleased with that. The problem is you have to chose one device to sync to. So if you want to take notes and sync with your iphone, but then later what to sycn with your iPad, then you will have completely different notes on each device. Ok, so then if you chose one device, you can have all of your notes in one place. But if you lose that device you are syncing with, or get a new device (like upgrade your phone), there is no way to transfer the data from the app on your old phone to the app on your new phone. If you lose your phone the data is lost and no way of recovering it. The company says they are working on the back up issue. I have spent a month back and forth trying to trouble shoot, but the email support is not very fast. I've requested phone support, but they don't offer it.So overall, this product could be great, but it's not quite there yet. So I'd wait until they resolve these issues.

I ordered this hoping that I would be able to digitize notes and sketches easily. I wished I'd thought this through more before I ordered it. To be honest, I can't figure out how to use it. I tried the instructions, and they are very limited. I've been to the website, no help there either. I downloaded the app (which seems to have it's own issues), and still nothing. I don't know if I need to buy their special paper that is on their website or what. The listing didn't say it needed to be used with a special notebook or paper. It's all very confusing.The app synched with the pen just fine. However, I'm not sure I downloaded the right app because it's not called what's listed in the instruction manual, but I did find one that has the same logo and partially the same name and it did find the pen, so I'm assuming it was just an updated version. Still, it didn't transfer anything and I couldn't find any FAQ or instructions or anything. I clicked on a link inside the app, however it took me to a sales page that was written in Korean (I think).The inkpen does work as an inkpen, however this thing is expensive for that. I'm really hoping I can find more online about it or a support page written in English so that I can get it to working correctly. It does look like a good product and I really want it to work, so here's to hoping I guess.

There is so much to love about the Neo Smartpen and its note-taking environment. I've been a Rocket Book user for a number of years, so an electronic note-taking system is not novel, but Neo's take on it is different. Both systems sell you professionally manufactured products and also offer you free templates you can print at home. Neo's system depends on its very nice refillable electronic pen to make the magic happen. Rocketbook pages are unremarkable except for the barcode in the bottom corner the icons along the bottom that tell the Rocketbook app what to do with the page's information (email, store, etc.). Neo smartpages have intricate encoding on the page to help the smart pen track your writing. It also encodes page numbers, so you have to make sure you don't just print multiple copies of the free pages you can download from their site. You will end up overwriting something you wrote/drew before. Some smart page packs have icons in the upper right corner that you can tap to direct your page data to email, etcThis first part of the review was written in long-hand with the Neo Smartpen on the free smart pages (pic #1) that I had printed out at 1200 dpi on my HP Laserjet. Everything works great, even with the smudgy lines that mean it's time to buy a new toner cartridge. I didn't have the app running on my phone for the real-time digital sync, so the pen just saved everything in its memory. When I launched the app it connected to my pen and let me download all its info into the app. That is a very cool feature. Then I used the app's OCR (Optical Character Recognition, or image-to-text, or transcribed text) feature so that my handwriting became the first draft of this review.It does very well in converting your handwriting to editable text, but it won't send the resulting text if you choose to share it at this point. It will share what you wrote/drew on a page as a PDF, or PNG, etc., but it doesn't transfer the text - just the image. To get the converted image-to-text, you have to choose the squiggle in the upper right corner of the NeoStudio app & choose the lasso icon at the bottom of the page. You then need to draw your lasso around the text to convert (transcribe), then select the destination for your transcribed text. Watch the videos on their website to get the most out of this great product. I am really enjoying using it.